DIY Raised Stencil carving

Hello Guys! hope you all had a great long weekend and your week is off to a great start. I have had a very busy weekend doing some modern Ikea hacks for my friend’s home and will share them soon with you guys. Meanwhile, get yourself treated with this amazing project on raised stencil to add some extra detailing to your painted furniture. Rather than paint on a stencil pattern, create a raised stencil on your piece. This adds extra dimension and interest and looks amazing when dark waxed or glazed to bring out the highlights! Adding a raised stencil (as opposed to just paint) is easy and fun and all you need is Plaster of Paris (That’s all!!!!)

I found this in a thrift store and felt it would be a great piece for a makeover. I planned on doing a raised stencil on this to create the dramatic effect on this plain table.

Things you need:

1. Plaster of paris
2. Stencil
3. Spatula for spreading
4. cup and warm water
5. painters tape
6. Paint as per your choice
7. Gold paint for buffing

Amazon list for things you need:

https://www.amazon.com/shop/desi_diy_divyakandala?listId=VT96OPI3X9EA&ref=idea_share_inf 

Step1: Prep your space.

Before you can start working your plaster, keep all your things ready, stencil, cup, luke warm water, spatula to spread.

Plaster of Paris gets hardened very fast, so we need to be ready to act quick.

I had painted my table in grey, you can do white to bring in the double shaded distressed look. Or you can even mix color in the plaster while mixing it, use your own creativity on it.

Step2: FIX the Stencil

Fix your stencil in place with painters tape

Step3: Mixing

So I just ordered a box of plaster of paris from amazon.

Take some plaster and put in a bowl and keep adding some luke warm water until you get paste like consistency.

Note: This is the only tricky part in this project since it dries up fast. Key here is always mix in small quantities so that you can discard the leftover if it gets hard.

Step4: Apply

Apply the plaster of paris and spread it with a spatula.

Step5: Let it dry and Remove stencil

Like I mentioned earlier, since plaster dries fast you can only work on small areas. Remove the stencil gently so that you dont peel off the plaster

Step6: Repeat

Repeat the whole process to cover all the area that you want the raised stencil on. This is how my table looked after the whole thing.

I had pained it back in grey again to finish my look. You can see the imperfection on it, dont worry about them, they will be masked once you paint them and just pull the ones that you thin are extra.

I have now added a little glamour to it by doing some random gold buffing.

Have given some dry brushing of annie sloan dark wax and then fixed a placemat in the middle with modgepodge. and this is how my table looks 🙂